Brain: Lateral aperture
Three-dimensional representation of the ventricular system of the human brain. The fourth ventricle is the lower blue mass. The little points sticking out on the left and right are the two parts of the lateral recess, which end in the foramen of Luschka.
Human caudal brainstem posterior view (Lateral aperture is #18)
Latin	apertura lateralis ventriculi quarti
Gray's	subject #187 798
Acronym(s)	LA4V
NeuroNames	hier-637

The lateral aperture is a paired structure in human anatomy. It is an opening in each lateral extremity of the lateral recess of the fourth ventricle of the human brain. Along with the single median aperture, the two lateral aperatures provide a conduit for cerebrospinal fluid to flow from the brain's ventricular system into the subarachnoid space. The structure is also called the lateral aperture of the fourth ventricle or the foramen of Luschka after anatomist Hubert von Luschka.^[1]

[edit] References

This article was originally based on an entry from a public domain edition of Gray's Anatomy. As such, some of the information contained within it may be outdated.

v • d • e Ventricular system, rhombencephalon, met- and myel-: fourth ventricle (TA A14.1.05.701-726, GA 9.797) Roof (dorsal) rostral: Superior medullary velum (Frenulum) caudal: Inferior medullary velum · Taenia of fourth ventricle Floor/rhomboid fossa (ventral) rostral (pons): Facial colliculus · Locus coeruleus caudal (medulla}: Vagal trigone · Hypoglossal trigone · Area postrema · Obex Medial eminence · Sulcus limitans Apertures Median/Magendie · Lateral recess to Lateral/Luschka Other Tela chorioidea of fourth ventricle · Fastigium

This neuroscience article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. v • d • e